Crazy stuff can happen in small towns...
In my home town, the grill on the town square serves sausages that are hand made by one of the fanciest well known tv-chefs my country has to offer. The grill owner and the chef met each other at a small festival and the chef offered to make better and cheaper sausages than the ones the big butcher factories make, the grill owner said ok and then the two set out to break the sausage monopoly...
Some playwright friend of the chef even wrote a play about it.

Also, our resident modern artist has augmented his atelier/shop so it also works as bicycle workshop... So you can buy door-sized postmodernistic art while having your gears readjusted.

I actually live in North San Diego county in a town called Escondido, so we're not exactly small haha we have our own entire street dedicated to car dealerships called the Mile of Cars, and April - September we have an event in town called Cruising Grand where people from all over the place come and show off their fancy cars every Friday night

I was about to write that my town isn't exactly small either... Then I decided to look up your town's inhabitant numbers...
143911 as opposed to our 4565.
Considering we have had some 500 years head start, we haven't used them very well...

Haha yeah, living in San Diego gets pretty crowded sometimes, there's just so much stuff in Southern California that draws people from all over the place like Disney Land, Los Angeles, the convention center here in SD for Comic-Con and stuff like that

my grandmother tells me of the local butcher having the best brats around. their recipe was bought by a company who was at the time, or came to be known as johnsonville a nationally popular bratt manufacturer

i couldnt find the name of the butcher in johnsonville history, funny how they dont want to say their recipe isnt the family's. but my grandmother is convinced that it was the recipe from the small town butcher in/near lacrosse WI

I wasn't trying to be funny. I was just trying to explain it for him. I understand that if you are not from the city it might be unusual to think you will have a 30 story building and it could have 30 different businesses, restaurants, etc.

I grewup in the country side, Its not hard to beleive. Places like china make it a priority too. We should start doing it more here as it slows a cities radial expansion and becomes for effeint useof space. The term price to performance comes to mind.

Several ways to take it.
1: My first viewing, I thought his lawyer just cleared it all up.
2: He's so nuts he hallucinated it all.
3: Nobody gives a **** about him.
4: Nobody wants to be inconvenienced by this.

i thought it was all just in his head? the whole time he thought he was someone else and halbestram turned out to actually be in london. Also the house where he murdered everyone, he went back there andd it was as if none of it happened remember?

But that would completely take away from the message of the film. A cheesy twist where the main character is crazy was not the intention. The book was originally meant to be a satirical critique of the "fast life" and how humans can be so selfish and even sociopathic that they will overlook a serial killer in order to further their own gains. Throughout the film Bateman's inner monologue hints at this.

Hmm... I suppose, as loomiss mentioned, parts like the police car exploding must have been in his head but the idea behind the film is lost if you assume that it was all in his head. The initial murders definitely happened but everyone was too self-involved to care.

My thoughts on why the house was clean.
Imagine you're a landlord and you own this expensive ******* house.
You are so self-absorbed you don't care about these dead people.
So you clean the house as if none of it happened in order to make sure you're able to sell the house.
Although, even with that I still believe it was fake and in his head for the fact that when he shot the police car it just exploded. Like he had to be making that **** up.

Another thing that leads me to believe it was all in his head are the drawings in his little book that his assistant found. I think he imagined himself doing all of this stuff as he drew it on the paper.